BLONDIE: "Heart of Glass," filmed at Studio 54 in New York City, topped the Billboard chart on this week in 1979.

PRINCE reportedly died without a will. The Revolution announced it would reunite for some shows, presumably including the planned Prince tribute concert in Mpls. The Current offers an hour-long documentary, featuring interviews from Bobby Z, producer Susan Rodgers, Jimmy Jam, Wendy and Lisa and more.

MICHAEL STRAHAN will be leaving Live with Kelly Ripa four months early. Top executives at Disney and ABC have personally apologized to Kelly Ripa for last week's bungled announcement about the departure of her co-host Michael Strahan.

TURKEY: Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist, was arrested after she wrote a column last week critical of president Erdogan, and his government’s growing crackdown on freedom of expression.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: The flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and Syria has dropped from roughly 2,000 a month down to 200 within the past year, according to the Pentagon, which says the waning numbers are further proof of the Islamic State’s declining stature. OTOH, US director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. says the Islamic State is operating clandestine terrorist cells in Britain, Germany and Italy.

AUSTRIA's government was licking its wounds Monday after a historic debacle that saw the opposition anti-immigrant far-right triumph in a presidential ballot two years before the next scheduled general election.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Jungle Book repeated atop the chart with a crushing 60.8MM, dropping a mere 41 percent for a film that opened north of 100MM. That likely projects to 350-400MM in North America alone by the end of its run, possibly a billion worldwide. The Huntsman: Winter's War was the crushee, placing with mere 20MM debut against a 115MM budget (Snow White and the Huntsman opened at 56MM). Barbershop: The Next Cut showed with 10.8MM, on a 47 percent drop that's probably too large for a 20MM comedy. Zootopia popped back up to the fourth slot with another 6.6MM on a still-leggy 19 percent drop. The Boss rounded out the Top Five withanother 6MM on a 30 percent drop. Batman v Superman slips below the fold and may end up grossing less than Zootopia.

NORTH KOREA: Pres Obama said on Sunday that he does not believe North Korea is sincere in its offer to halt nuclear tests if the US suspends military exercises with South Korea, and that Pyongyang would “have to do better than that”.

KELLY RIPA did not show up for her TV show Wednesday and it may just be the first in a string of absences. She was reportedly ambushed with the news her co-host Michael Strahan was jumping to Good Morning America. (And would anyone be surprised if GMA was thereafter expanded, pushing Ripa off-air?)

RUSSIA has been moving artillery units to areas of northern Syria where government forces have massed, raising U.S. concern the two allies may be preparing for a return to full-scale fighting as the current cease-fire falters, U.S. officials said.

IRAN's foreign minister is shocked that the US does not believe that despite its ballistic missile tests, and its supreme leader's threatening speeches, and its support for Syria's dictator … his country really just wants peace and harmony.